The huge and growing devotion to John Bradburne is an indicator that the murdered Franciscan missionary could well become Zimbabwe’s first saint. That, at least, is the view of the postulator of his Cause for canonisation, Enrico Solinas.
In a message read out at a reception following a Mass in London to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Bradburne’s death in 1979, Solinas said he was overwhelmed by the number of people, including 15,000 of the poorest, who turned out to attend the opening of the Cause in the Zimbabwean village of Mutemwa on September 5.
